I’d like to go over my five reasons I try to grow my own food, or at least as much food as I am able to squeeze into my already hectic life. It all started when one of my daughters was 5 years old, we noticed she was developing girly parts significantly faster than we […]
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Backyard Farming and The Rogue Chicken
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Random Pics (and some of my Back Story)
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Urbanstead Update March 2013
It’s been a while so I thought I’d update whats going on in my urban backyard “farm”. I like to write these out from time to time to show you what I’ve accomplished, as well as to track where I’ve been. My memory isn’t what it used to be, so this works well as a […]
Revisiting My choice in animals for “Urbansteading”
This is a repost of one of my first articles. I’ve gotten a lot of questions as to why I’ve chosen these, so thought I’d repost it to get it out there again. Living 5o feet from another family makes certain choices VERY important. Your TV volume, height of your fence, amount of clothing […]
